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I remember when watching in the theater, the audience reacted with awe. At the time is was a novel technique. Then it was followed up with Carrie Fisher at the

I remember when watching in the theater, the audience reacted with awe. At the time is was a novel technique. Then it was followed up with Carrie Fisher at the end. And the audience loved it.

thaumasiotes 2y ago
The synthetic Tarkin was well received and looked accurate. The synthetic Carrie Fisher looked weird and wasn't so well received.
- lordfrito 2y ago
  A while back someone deepfaked the CGI Leia scene with footage of the actual Carrie Fisher as Leia in the original Star Wars. It looked amazing. So amazing I'm surprised the CGI -> Deepfake technique isn't used more often in movies.
  - geerlingguy 2y ago
    Corridor did it and it was a great episode on how deepfakes were progressing (they're muck better now): https://youtu.be/_CXMb_MO3aw?feature=shared https://youtu.be/_CXMb_MO3aw?feature=shared
    - thaumasiotes 2y ago
      The most prominent difference between "original" and "deepfake" in the footage opening that video (of Tarkin, not Leia) is that the deepfake has much worse lighting. The second is that the deepfake looks significantly younger.
  - loloquwowndueo 2y ago
    Rogue One is from 2016. AI-driven deepfake couldn’t do that back then.
1123581321 2y ago
I remember the same. I saw it in a packed opening weekend; Tarkin’s was more of a cheer and Leia’s a wave of appreciative murmurs. Overheard only positive remarks exiting the theater. Sometime after that the imperfection and potential inappropriateness of the technique gained more cultural traction. It wasn’t until after The Last Jedi was released that Star Wars stopped getting the benefit of the doubt during first viewings, broadly speaking.
- throwawayk7h 2y ago
  I recall discussing it with my family after stepping out of the theatres. I hadn't realized there was anything strange, most of us didn't, but one of my siblings criticized the "bad CGI" at length on the walk home and said they should have hired a look-alike instead.
layer8 2y ago
I remember a lot of uncanny-valley conversations back then.

I remember when watching in the theater, the audience reacted with awe. At the time is was a novel technique. Then it was followed up with Carrie Fisher at the end. And the audience loved it.

thaumasiotes 2y ago

The synthetic Tarkin was well received and looked accurate. The synthetic Carrie Fisher looked weird and wasn't so well received.

lordfrito 2y ago
A while back someone deepfaked the CGI Leia scene with footage of the actual Carrie Fisher as Leia in the original Star Wars. It looked amazing. So amazing I'm surprised the CGI -> Deepfake technique isn't used more often in movies.
- geerlingguy 2y ago
  Corridor did it and it was a great episode on how deepfakes were progressing (they're muck better now): https://youtu.be/_CXMb_MO3aw?feature=shared https://youtu.be/_CXMb_MO3aw?feature=shared
  - thaumasiotes 2y ago
    The most prominent difference between "original" and "deepfake" in the footage opening that video (of Tarkin, not Leia) is that the deepfake has much worse lighting. The second is that the deepfake looks significantly younger.
- loloquwowndueo 2y ago
  Rogue One is from 2016. AI-driven deepfake couldn’t do that back then.

1123581321 2y ago

I remember the same. I saw it in a packed opening weekend; Tarkin’s was more of a cheer and Leia’s a wave of appreciative murmurs. Overheard only positive remarks exiting the theater. Sometime after that the imperfection and potential inappropriateness of the technique gained more cultural traction. It wasn’t until after The Last Jedi was released that Star Wars stopped getting the benefit of the doubt during first viewings, broadly speaking.

throwawayk7h 2y ago
I recall discussing it with my family after stepping out of the theatres. I hadn't realized there was anything strange, most of us didn't, but one of my siblings criticized the "bad CGI" at length on the walk home and said they should have hired a look-alike instead.

layer8 2y ago

I remember a lot of uncanny-valley conversations back then.